"following week. The group decided to change their name to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, played several more shows at various L.A. clubs and musical venues, and eventually recorded a demo tape, all while Slovak and Irons were still playing with What Is This?. A few months later, What Is This received a record deal with MCA Records and the Red Hot Chili Peppers received a joint deal with EMI America and Enigma Records. Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons decided to leave the Red Hot Chili Peppers and stay with What Is This? as the latter was their primary musical"
"Falafel Falafel or felafel (, ; , , dialectal: ) is a deep-fried ball, doughnut, or patty made from ground chickpeas, fava beans, or both. Falafel is a Levantine and Egyptian dish that most likely originated in Egypt. It is commonly served in a pita, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flatbread known as taboon; ""falafel"" also frequently refers to a wrapped sandwich that is prepared in this way. The falafel balls are laid over a bed of salads, pickled vegetables, hot sauce, and drizzled with tahini-based sauces. Falafel balls may also be eaten alone as a"
"Chickpea The chickpea or chick pea (') is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. Its different types are variously known as gram or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean, and Egyptian pea. Chickpea seeds are high in protein. It is one of the earliest cultivated legumes and 7500-year-old remains have been found in the Middle East. Chickpea is a key ingredient in hummus, chana masala, and can be ground into flour and made into falafel. It is also used in salads, soups and stews. The chickpea is important in Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine and in 2016,"
"unique recipes, such as sweet puddings, which have no common potato version. In some parts of the world (chiefly in Africa, Indonesia, and the Philippines), cassava leaves are also cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Raw cassava, especially the bitter varieties, contain cyanogenic glycosides and normally need to be prepared with some combination of boiling, fermenting, or sun drying to avoid the possibility of cyanide poisoning. In many Caribbean islands, cassava flour is made into a round-shaped flat bread called ""casabe"" or ""cassava bread"". Cassava is a staple of Cuban cuisine. Besides ""casabe"" bread, it is prepared as a side"
"consists of carbohydrates, with each cup containing 23.9 grams for a total of 105 calories; it is low in saturated fat, protein and sodium. One serving of tapioca pudding contains no dietary fiber, a small amount of oleic acid, and no omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. A casabe is a thin flatbread made from bitter cassava root without leavening. It was originally produced by the indigenous Arawak and Carib peoples because these roots were a common plant of the rain forests where they lived. In eastern Venezuela, many indigenous groups still make ""casabe"". It is their chief bread-like staple. Indigenous"
"a standard recipe, 10 chefs prepared the 130 cm diameter falafel ball. The record, 5,173 kg (11,404 lb 8 oz), was set by Chef Ramzi Choueiri and the students of Al-Kafaat University (Lebanon) in Beirut on 9 May 2010. Falafel Falafel or felafel (, ; , , dialectal: ) is a deep-fried ball, doughnut, or patty made from ground chickpeas, fava beans, or both. Falafel is a Levantine and Egyptian dish that most likely originated in Egypt. It is commonly served in a pita, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flatbread known as taboon; ""falafel"" also frequently"
"Cantharellus Cantharellus is a genus of popular edible mushrooms, commonly known as chanterelles, a name which can also refer to the type species, ""Cantharellus cibarius"". They are mycorrhizal fungi, meaning they form symbiotic associations with plants, making them very difficult to cultivate. Caution must be used when identifying chanterelles for consumption due to lookalikes, such as the Jack-O-Lantern species (""Omphalotus olearius"" and others), which can make a person very ill. Despite this, chanterelles are one of the most recognized and harvested groups of edible mushrooms. Many species of chanterelles contain antioxidant carotenoids, such as beta-carotene in ""C. cibarius"" and ""C."
"dishes, including meat, chicken, fish, rice, beans, stews, soups, vegetables, salads, condiments, sauces, and stocks. is sold in food markets as a bundle of both types of fresh herbs. In some Brazilian regions, chopped parsley may be replaced by chopped coriander (also called cilantro, in Portuguese) in the mixture. Parsley is a key ingredient in several Middle Eastern salads such as Lebanese ""tabbouleh""; it is also often mixed in with the chickpeas and/or fava beans while making falafel (that gives the inside of the falafel its green color). Parsley Parsley or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of flowering"
"Crumble A crumble is a dish of Irish origin that can be made in a sweet or savoury version, although the sweet version is much more common. A sweet variety usually contains stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat (usually butter), flour, and sugar. A savoury version uses meat, vegetables and sauce for the filling, with cheese replacing sugar in the crumble mix. The crumble is baked in an oven until the topping is crisp. The dessert variety is often served with ice cream, cream, or custard. The savoury variety can be served with vegetables. Popular fruits used"
"timbel"" (rice wrapped in banana leaf). Despite the relative ease of raising pigeons, squab is ""not usually considered"" in terms of its potential for food security. In parts of the developed world, squab meat is thought of as exotic or distasteful by consumers because they view feral pigeons as unsanitary urban pests. However, squab meat is regarded as safer than some other poultry products as it harbors fewer pathogens, and may be served between medium and well done. Squab In culinary terminology, squab is a young domestic pigeon, typically under four weeks old, or its meat. The meat is widely"
"Stromboli (food) Stromboli is a type of turnover filled with various Italian cheeses (typically mozzarella) and cold cuts (typically Italian meats such as salami, capocollo and bresaola) or vegetables. The dough used is either Italian bread dough or pizza dough. Stromboli was likely invented by Italian-Americans or Italian immigrants in the United States in Philadelphia, though it may have similar counterparts originating in Italy. It is believed to be named after the Italian film ""Stromboli"" or the island of Stromboli. A stromboli is somewhat similar to a calzone. A calzone is a baked turnover stuffed with pizza ingredients. A stromboli"
"and tapioca pearls. It is often sold in neighborhoods by street vendors who yell out """"taho"""" in a manner like that of vendors in the stands at sporting events yelling out ""hotdogs"" or ""peanuts"". Sometimes, ""taho"" is served chilled, and flavors have recently been added, such as chocolate or strawberry. ""Taho"" is derived from the original Chinese snack food known as ""douhua"". There is also ""iskrambol"" (from the English ""to scramble""), a kind of iced-based treat similar to a sorbet. The shaved ice is combined with various flavorings and usually topped with chocolate syrup. It is eaten by ""scrambling"" the"
"capicola ham and provolone cheese covered in an Italian chili sauce on a French bread roll. Stromboli (food) Stromboli is a type of turnover filled with various Italian cheeses (typically mozzarella) and cold cuts (typically Italian meats such as salami, capocollo and bresaola) or vegetables. The dough used is either Italian bread dough or pizza dough. Stromboli was likely invented by Italian-Americans or Italian immigrants in the United States in Philadelphia, though it may have similar counterparts originating in Italy. It is believed to be named after the Italian film ""Stromboli"" or the island of Stromboli. A stromboli is somewhat"
"Barnacle A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (nonmotile) suspension feeders, and have two nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known. The name ""Cirripedia"" is Latin, meaning ""curl-footed"". The study of barnacles is called cirripedology. Barnacles are encrusters, attaching themselves permanently to a hard substrate. The most common, ""acorn barnacles"" (Sessilia), are sessile, growing their shells directly onto the"
"that is attached to a fixed stick or lever, which is used to stretch the sebucan. When the lever is pushed down, stretching the sebucan, the helical weaving pattern causes the strainer to squeeze the pulp inside. This is similar to the action of a Chinese finger trap. The pulp is spread in thin, round cakes about in diameter on a ""budare"" to roast or toast. Thin and crisp cakes of ""casabe"" are often broken apart and eaten like crackers. Like bread, ""casabe"" can be eaten alone or with other dishes. Thicker ""casabe"" usually are eaten slightly moistened. A sprinkle"
"Fameal Fameal is a general word for a food product, used by Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in programs to feed the hungry as a part of the Agricultural Act of 1949. The food product is made up of a wheat-soy meal blend or a cornmeal-soy blend (WSB or CSB, corn soy blend). This food is distributed, often aided by volunteers, in the Caribbean and West Africa. A premade mix of fameal is extrusion cooked for usage under primitive conditions. In this form, the meal is eaten as a thin paste or thickened and made into dumplings or bread. The taste is"
"its high D-Chiro-Inositol content. The vine and fruit are used for fodder. Because of its ability to keep for a long time, the ripe fruit was taken on voyages on ships, and used for food for livestock on board. Cucurbita ficifolia Cucurbita ficifolia is a species of squash, grown for its edible seeds, fruit, and greens. It has many common names in English such as the fig-leaf gourd, Malabar gourd, black seed squash, and cidra. Although it is closely related to other squashes in its genus, such as the pumpkin, it shows considerable biochemical difference from them and does not"
"Leblebi Leblebi (; ; Persian: نخودچی Nokhodchi; Sicilian: Càlia) is a snack made from roasted chickpeas, common and popular in Algeria, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and sometimes seasoned with salt, hot spices, dried cloves, or candy coated. In Tunisia it the term refers to a very popular chickpea based breakfast soup which also includes egg and stale bread. Chickpeas used for leblebi are selected for shape, size, color, and harvesting time, and vary by cultivar. Generally, large-seeded (8 –9 mm in diameter and 30.0 –50.0 g of 100 kernel weight ), lighter-colored, round, and smooth surfaced ""Kabuli"" chickpeas are preferred;"
"ground cereals. General: Escargot Escargots, , (French for snails) are a delicacy consisting of cooked edible land snails. They are often served as an hors d'oeuvre and consumed by the French people, as well as people from Portugal, Sardinia, and Spain. They are also a typical of the cuisines of Catalonia, Crete, and Greece, as well as such North African countries as Algeria and Morocco. The word ""escargot"" is also sometimes applied to living examples of those species which are commonly eaten in this way. In British English, the menu item is usually referred to simply as snails. The first"
"of the region, second only to cereals. Fava beans are eaten both green and dried. Dried, they are boiled into one of the most popular Egyptian foods: ful medames, a domestic and street food, eaten for breakfast or any other meal, mashed and dressed in oil, lemon, and chili. Similar dishes are found in all other parts of the region. The famous Falafel, now popular in Europe and America, was originally made from dried fava, crushed and formed into a rissole with herbs and spices, then fried. It is also made from chickpeas or a mixture of the two. Green"
"Gribenes Gribenes or grieven (, , ""scraps""; ) are crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions, a kosher food somewhat similar to pork rinds. Gribenes are a byproduct of schmaltz preparation. A favored food in the past among Ashkenazi Jews, ""gribenes"" is frequently mentioned in Jewish stories and parables. This food is often associated with the Jewish holidays Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah. Traditionally, ""gribenes"" were served with potato kugel or latkes during Hanukkah. ""Gribenes"" are also associated with Passover, as large amounts of schmaltz, with its resulting gribenes, were traditionally used in Passover recipes. ""Gribenes"" can be eaten"
"Mahleb Mahleb or Mahalepi is an aromatic spice made from the seeds of a species of cherry, ""Prunus mahaleb"" (the Mahaleb or St Lucie cherry). The cherry stones are cracked to extract the seed kernel, which is about 5 mm diameter, soft and chewy on extraction. The seed kernel is ground to a powder before use. Its flavour is similar to a combination of bitter almond and cherry, and similar also to marzipan. Mahleb is used in small quantities to sharpen sweet foods and cakes, and is used in production of tresse cheese. It has been used for centuries in"
"Chaff Chaff ( or ) is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw. Chaff is indigestible by humans, but livestock can eat it and in agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burnt. ""Chaff"" comes from Middle English ""chaf"", from Old English ""ceaf"", related to Old High German ""cheva"", ""husk"". In grasses (including cereals such as rice, barley, oats, and wheat), the ripe seed is surrounded by thin, dry,"
"coconut is also a drupe, but the mesocarp is fibrous or dry (termed a husk), so this type of fruit is classified as a simple dry, fibrous drupe. Unlike other drupes, the coconut seed is unlikely to be dispersed by being swallowed by fauna, due to its large size. It can, however, float extremely long distances across oceans. Bramble fruits (such as the blackberry or the raspberry) are aggregates of drupelets. The fruit of blackberries and raspberries comes from a single flower whose pistil is made up of a number of free carpels. However, mulberries, which closely resemble blackberries, are"
"flour. Cassava is a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge) family. Cassava and yam are the most important source of food carbohydrate in Nigeria; Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava. Cassava flour when used as a dry powder makes àmàlà láfún. Fermented and flaky, it is called Garri, another common dish, most often eaten by the Ijebu people. Another type of Amala is ""elubo ogede"" (which is usually lighter in color). The low carbohydrate level in plantain flour makes it a good food for diabetics and others who need a low-carbohydrate food. Unripe plantain is peeled, dried, and"
"the seed inside the ridged shell it contains, are considered edible. ""Chrysobalanus icaco"" is a shrub , or bushy tree , rarely to . It has evergreen broad-oval to nearly round somewhat leathery leaves (3 to 10 cm long and 2.5 to 7 cm wide). Leaf colors range from green to light red. The bark is greyish or reddish brown, with white specks. The clustered flowers are small, greenish-white, and appear intermittently throughout the year but more abundantly in late spring. The fruit that follows (a drupe) is variable, with that of the coastal form being round, up to 5"
"Rhubarb Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum or Rheum"" × ""hybridum according to the British Royal Horticultural Society) is a species of plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizomes. The fleshy, edible stalks (petioles), are used in cooking, but the large, triangular leaves contain high levels of oxalic acid, making them inedible. The small flowers are grouped in large compound leafy greenish-white to rose-red inflorescences. Although rhubarb is a vegetable, it is often put to the same culinary uses as fruits. The leaf stalks can be used raw, when they have a crisp texture (similar"
"drupe attached to the receptacle. In some bramble fruits (such as blackberry) the receptacle is elongated and part of the ripe fruit, making the blackberry an ""aggregate-accessory"" fruit. The strawberry is also an aggregate-accessory fruit, only one in which the seeds are contained in achenes. In all these examples, the fruit develops from a single flower with numerous pistils. A multiple fruit is one formed from a cluster of flowers (called an ""inflorescence""). Each flower produces a fruit, but these mature into a single mass. Examples are the pineapple, fig, mulberry, osage-orange, and breadfruit. In the photograph on the right,"
"Crispbread Crispbread (, ""hårt bröd"", ""hårdbröd"", ""spisbröd"", ""knäcke"", , , , , , , , , ) is a flat and dry type of cracker, containing mostly rye flour. Crispbreads are light and keep fresh for a very long time. Crispbread is a staple food and was for a long time considered a poor man's diet. However, in recent years there has been renewed interest in crispbread in the Nordic countries. Crispbread has been baked in central Sweden since 500 AD. It was made as round wafers with a hole in the middle so the bread could be stored on"
"Cantaloupe Cantaloupe (muskmelon, mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon) or spanspek (South Africa) is a variety of the ""Cucumis melo"" species in the Cucurbitaceae family. Cantaloupes range in weight from . Originally, ""cantaloupe"" referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe, but may mean any orange-fleshed melon of ""C. melo"". China is the world's largest producer of cantaloupes, providing half of the global total in 2016. The name cantaloupe is derived via French ""cantaloup"" from Italian ""Cantalupo,"" which was formerly a papal county seat near Rome, after the fruit's introduction there from Armenia. It was first mentioned in English literature in"
"(20% or more of the Daily Value or DV) of vitamin C (44% DV) and vitamin A (21% DV), with other nutrients in negligible amounts (less than 10% DV) (table). Cantaloupe Cantaloupe (muskmelon, mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon) or spanspek (South Africa) is a variety of the ""Cucumis melo"" species in the Cucurbitaceae family. Cantaloupes range in weight from . Originally, ""cantaloupe"" referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe, but may mean any orange-fleshed melon of ""C. melo"". China is the world's largest producer of cantaloupes, providing half of the global total in 2016. The name cantaloupe is derived"
"Chakli Chakli is a savoury snack from India. It is a spiral shaped snack with a spiked surface. Chakli is typically made from flours of rice, bengal gram (brown chickpea) and black gram (""urad daal""). It has several variations, depending on the types and proportion of flours used. Murukku, a similar snack typically made without the Bengal gram flour, is also sometimes called ""chakli"". Other names of the dish include ""chakali"", ""chakkuli"", ""chakri"", ""chakralu"", or జంతికలు ""jantikalu"" and . Murukku, a similar dish typically made without the bengal gram, is also sometimes called ""chakli"". Kadboli is a similar dish, which"
"Acocil The acocil (Cambarellus montezumae) is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known from Jalisco and Puebla. The name ""acocil"" comes from the Nahuatl """", meaning ""crooked one of the water"" or ""squirms in the water"". It is a traditional foodstuff of the Pre-Columbian Mexicans, who boiled or baked the animal, and ate it in tacos. This is a common species in its range, becoming abundant in some areas. It can be found in a number of aquatic habitat types, including artificial habitats such as canals. It is found in"